Climate-change mitigation in Canadian environmental impact assessments

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 222-233

  Ohsawa, Takafumi ^a   Duinker, Peter ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; climate change; EIAs; GHG emissions; mitigation; significance

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; PROJECT ASSESSMENT;

CANADA;

EID: 84905097675     PISSN: 14615517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2014.913761     Document Type: Article

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